THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



VOL. XVII. 



CHICAGO, OCTOBER, 1902. 



NO. 10 



Hon. Thomas F. In presenting to our readers 

 Walsh, the splendid speech of Hon 



Thos. F. Walsh, delivered at the opening 

 of the Tenth National Irrigation Con- 

 gress, of which he was president; it is con- 

 sidered appropriate to present a portrait 

 of that gentleman and we are therefore 

 using a very excellent likeness of him as 

 our frontispiece in this issue. In view of 

 the splendid work done for irrigation by 

 Mr. Walsh, little of which will probably 

 ever be known even by the friendo of that 

 industry, it is only fitting to say at this time, 

 when he is stepping down and out of office, 

 that a more devoted friend to the cause 

 will rarely if ever be found. 



Mr. Walsh is the embodiment of all 

 that goes to make a gentleman; has led a 

 remarkably clean life and has withall been 

 emminently successful in his business af- 

 fairs, being now rated among the strong- 

 est financial men of this age. 



Mr. Walsh is a mine owner and mining 

 . engineer. He was born in Tipperary, Ire- 

 land in 1851, and educated in the public 

 schools, afterward learning the trade of 

 mill-wright. He emigrated to the United 

 States at the age of nineteen, settling in 

 Colorado. He then engaged in mining, 

 making a close study of geology, mineral- 

 ogy, metallurgy and the deposition of ore 

 bodies and the development and treatment 

 of ores, and was also instrumental in in- 

 troducing new methods of treatment. 



He developed, equipped and is now sole 

 owner and operator of the Camp Bird 

 mines, of Ouray, Colorado. 



Mr. Walsh was one of the National 

 Commissioners to the Paris Exposition in 

 1900, and a member of the A. A. A. S., 

 Washington Acadamy Scineces, Nat'liGeo- 

 Soc. , Am. Soc. Mining Eng'rs.. Ex-presi- 

 dent National Irrigation Congress, etc. 



He is also a member of a number of 

 clubs, among them being the Denver Club 

 and the Cosmos Club, Washington. 



Mr. Walsh is an|extensive traveler and 

 has been lavishly entertained abroad, but 

 only as a public spirited American. He 

 has hosts of friends in all countries. 

 Our Report of the We make no excuse nor 

 Congress. apology for allowing our re- 



port of the Tenth Irrigation Congress, t 

 monopolize this number of the AGE to the 

 comparative exclusion of our regular de- 

 partments. Our only regret is that,owing 

 to the fact that the journal goes to press 

 so shortly after the meeting was held, lack 

 of time, as well as lack of space, prevents 

 our giving all of the excellent addresses, 

 which were delivered at Colorado Springs. 

 We give in this issue, that of the ex-pres- 

 ident of the association, Hon. Thos. F. 

 Walsh, on "the Humanitarian Aspect of 

 National Irrigation,'' and will later pre- 

 sent other addresses in the order that 

 their importance warrants. 



The Irrigation Congress is the event of 

 the year, to friends of this great move- 

 ment and this year it was of even more 

 than usual interest, as it was, in a meas- 

 ure, a celebration of the recent victory 

 achieved for the cause in the passage of the 

 irrigation art. It is to be regretted that 



